Saturday, March 30, 2024

day no. 16,595: ten or ten thousand?

"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.” — G.K. Chesterton

Rules are inescapable. Something is going to govern. If you will not abide by the simplicity of God's Law you will suffer under the complexity of man's. The Bible may be a big book, but it pales in comparison to our tomes on tax codes. God's Law provides simple principles that can be applied to all of life, but man's laws must account for every imaginable scenario and thus require never-ending revision and addition. When you reject God and His image, you do not get liberty; you get libraries of regulations aimed at making man into the image of man's idea of man.

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